9 h. ago Woman in her 30s dies in skydiving fall at County Durham farm after 'parachute accident'

Emergency services rushed to Wreford's Farm in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, on Sunday morning. The woman, in her 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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10 h. ago Woman in her 30s dies after skydiving fall at County Durham farm

A woman in her 30s sadly died following a sky diving accident at a farm in County Durham over the weekend.  

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11 h. ago Durham skydiving tragedy as woman in 30s dies in horror fall at farm

Emergency services raced to Wreford's Farm in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, on the weekend after a woman became injured during a skydiving session - she has been pronounced dead

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8 d. ago I visited every country in the world without flying. Here are eight things I learned

Spending nearly a decade on the move gave me a deeper understanding of the importance of conversation, people’s boundless generosity – and my limitationsI have often felt as if I was born 100 years too late. There was a time when satellites weren’t whizzing above us and everything had yet to be discovered or filmed. Growing up, it seemed as if all the great adventures had happened before I was born. But in 2013 I discovered that – although it had been attempted – no one had made an unbroken journey through every country without flying. I had a shot at becoming the first to do it.I was fascinated that such an adventure was still out there, untouched. However, I was in my 30s, I had just met a wonderful woman, my peers were having their first children (and in some cases their second) and I had a 12-year career in shipping and logistics. But I couldn’t let the idea go. So, at 34, I set off – and didn’t return home until almost a decade later. These are the lessons I learned along the w...

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2 w. ago Police arrest seven people in London raids after acid attack on man in his 30s

Devon and Cornwall Police, with Metropolitan Police, arrested six men in their 20s at a number of addresses in Central London yesterday. A woman in her 30s was then arrested in Plymouth.

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3 w. ago Woman, 43, told she 'looks like she's early 30s' after using collagen shots

The Myprotein x Collagen collection includes a number of products that are currently on offer, as well as an additional Reach PLC code for 15% off the products

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3 w. ago Face of 'incredibly modern' royal who lived 3,500 years ago in late bronze age Mycenae is brought back to life with incredible digital reconstruction

The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery on the Greek mainland at Mycenae and was discovered in the 1950s.

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3 w. ago ‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war

Digital technology reveals ‘incredibly modern’ royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of TroyShe lived 3,500 years ago – but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homer’s King Agamemnon. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Woman arrested after newborn baby found dead outside Notting Hill church in M&S bag

Woman in her 30s, believed to be the child’s mother, held on suspicion of concealing a birth, neglect and infanticide

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4 w. ago Woman, in her 30s, is arrested after body of newborn baby boy found in M&S bag outside church in Notting Hill

Officers from the Met Police were called at 12:46pm last Tuesday to All Saints Church on Talbot Road in the Notting Hill area after the baby boy's body was found.

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4 w. ago Dead baby found inside M&S bag near Notting Hill church as woman arrested

The dead newborn baby boy was found in a plastic bag outside a church in Notting Hill in west London as a woman in her 30s was arrested on Saturday and taken to hospital for treatment

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4 w. ago Matt Baker says it's 'tough life' behind the scenes as Countryfile presenter hits out

Countryfile presenter Matt Baker has lived and breathed the rural life having grown up on his parents' sheep farm in the Durham Dales and he has now opened up about the misconceptions of farming.

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